The Interdependence of

Rhythm and Image

Pauline von Bonsdorff

University of Jyväskylä

pauline.v.bonsdorff@jyu.fi

Daniel N. Stern

Rudolf Arnheim

Elements de rythmanalyse.

Introduction à la

connaissance des

rythmes (1992)

”to grasp a rhythm, one must

have been grasped by it”

”the interaction of diverse

rhythms, repetitive and

different, animate the place”

”a unity of time and space, an

alliance. In and through

rhythm?”

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (with his daughter)

Arnheim in ”Beginning with the child”

“The child … is clearly

closer to the cheerful

noise of reality.”

“an unintended but

enlivening transparency”

“The small accidents … help

to enrich the visual

variety of the picture.”

“Dubuffet’s Grand Jazz

Band looks austere”

Maurice Merleau-Ponty:

Le monde sensible et le

monde de l’expression.

Cours au Collège de

France. Notes, 1953

(2011), 48

“there is not just a human

being who expresses

himself in a product, but

in addition a product that

expresses the world, and

the human being testifies

to himself as this

relationship appears”

”a greasy buzz”

Pirjo Honkasalo, The Three Rooms of Melancholia

(2004)

1 Longing (Kronstadt)

2 Breathing (Groznyi)

3 Remembering (Ingushetia)

Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard, L’eau et les rêves

• A dynamic joy handles them, kneads them,

lightens them. We dream these images of matter

substantially, intimately, avoiding forms,

vanishing forms, vain images, the becoming of

surfaces. They have a weight, they are a heart.

Reima and Raili Pietilä, Dipoli